Archives March 2017

Recent events raise questions of rising racism in Canada. It has been nearly 30 years since the Redress settlement was signed in Sept. 1988. Photo courtesy Archives of Canada.
And here we are seeing the ugly word “racism” in newspaper headlines so often again. A recent Toronto example: the York...

'Your Name' is the fourth highest grossing film in Japan of all time and is set to premier in Canada on April 7th. Photo courtesy: Funimation.
Director Shinkai is famous for his beautiful animation with sophisticated scripts.
The film is based on his own novel, published only a month before...

Dr. Santa Ono, who is named after a Japanese folk story samurai, is the first Japanese Canadian president of the University of British Columbia. Photo credit: Paul Joseph/UBC.
Dr. Ono, whose parents emigrated to Canada from postwar Japan, was born in Vancouver at St. Paul’s Hospital, while his father...

After a scary experience in Jakarta, the singer makes her her return to the stage at the Mod Club in Toronto.
It had been more than a year since Grannis performed and almost two years since she had been on a Canadian stage. It was an uncharacteristic disappearance, but she's had far from a normal...